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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.
Jon Meacham

Meaning of "allegorical" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALLEGORICAL

allegorical  [ˌælɪˈɡɒrɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALLEGORICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Allegorical is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ALLEGORICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

allegorical

Allegory

Allegory is a rhetorical device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art; a major reason for this is its immense power to illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are easily digestible and tangible to its viewers, readers, or listeners. An allegory conveys its hidden message through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken. As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. One of the best known examples is "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato. In this allegory, there are a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to the allegory, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality.

Definition of allegorical in the English dictionary

The definition of allegorical in the dictionary is used in, containing, or characteristic of allegory.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALLEGORICAL


ahistorical
ˌeɪhɪsˈtɒrɪkəl
anaphorical
ˌænəˈfɒrɪkəl
categorical
ˌkætɪˈɡɒrɪkəl
ethnohistorical
ˌeθnəʊhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
historical
hɪˈstɒrɪkəl
metaphorical
ˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkəl
nonhistorical
ˌnɒnhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
nonmetaphorical
ˌnɒnˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkəl
oratorical
ˌɒrəˈtɒrɪkəl
phantasmagorical
fænˌtæzməˈɡɒrɪkəl
pictorical
pɪkˈtɒrɪkəl
plethorical
plɛˈθɒrɪkəl
prehistorical
ˌpriːhɪsˈtɒrɪkəl
rhetorical
rɪˈtɒrɪkəl
semaphorical
ˌsɛməˈfɒrɪkəl
sociohistorical
ˌsəʊsɪəʊhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
transhistorical
ˌtrænzhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
unhistorical
ˌʌnhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
unmetaphorical
ˌʌnˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkəl
unrhetorical
ˌʌnrɪˈtɒrɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALLEGORICAL

alleged
allegedly
alleger
allegge
Alleghenies
Allegheny Mountains
allegiance
allegiant
allegoric
allegorically
allegoricalness
allegories
allegorisation
allegorise
allegoriser
allegorist
allegorization
allegorize
allegorizer
allegory

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALLEGORICAL

aspherical
asymmetrical
chemical
chimerical
clerical
cylindrical
diametrical
electrical
empirical
geometrical
hysterical
lyrical
metrical
numerical
obstetrical
satirical
semiempirical
spherical
symmetrical
theatrical
unsymmetrical

Synonyms and antonyms of allegorical in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ALLEGORICAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «allegorical» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of allegorical

Translation of «allegorical» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALLEGORICAL

Find out the translation of allegorical to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of allegorical from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «allegorical» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

寓言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alegórica
570 millions of speakers

English

allegorical
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रूपक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استعاري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аллегорическая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alegórico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপ্রস্তুতপ্রশংসা দ্বারা বর্ণিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

allégorique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Alegori
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

allegorisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寓話の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Allegorical
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về tỷ dụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உருவக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रुपकात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alegorik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

allegorico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

alegoryczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

алегорична
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

alegoric
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αλληγορική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

allegoriese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

allegorisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

allegorisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of allegorical

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLEGORICAL»

The term «allegorical» is regularly used and occupies the 70.429 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLEGORICAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about allegorical

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6 QUOTES WITH «ALLEGORICAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word allegorical.
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Annie Besant
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
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Jon Meacham
Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.
3
Barbet Schroeder
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
4
William Robertson Smith
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
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Frederick Soddy
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLEGORICAL»

Discover the use of allegorical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to allegorical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the ...
This book focuses on the literary artistry of the texts of Old French and bilingual motets, notably the special feature of motets that distinguished them from other medieval lyric forms: the phenomenon of polytextuality.
Sylvia Huot, 1997
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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as counterreadings, starting with denial or negation, challenging the literal sense: "You have read the text this way, but I will read it differently.
David Dawson, 1991
3
Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema ...
This book provides a long-overdue introduction to Schroeter’s visually lavish, idiosyncratic and conceptually rich cinema, situating its emergence within the context of the West German television and film subsidy system during the 1970s, ...
Michelle Langford, 2006
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Forgotten Paths: Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset
In Forgotten Paths, Davide Del Bello draws on the insights of Giambattista Vico and examines exemplary texts from classical, medieval, and Renaissance culture with the intent to trace the links between etymological and allegorical ways of ...
Davide Del Bello, 2007
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Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in ...
Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular.
Xing Ruan, 2006
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How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and ...
In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance.
Luc Brisson, 2004
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Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser
An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture.
Marco Nievergelt, 2012
8
Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and ...
Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey.
Robert Lamberton, 1989
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The Allegorical Manifold: (Beyond Truth and Untruth Through ...
" Its style is like a cross between Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Hegel. This is Mihajlo Bugarinovic's third book. He lives in Vancouver.
Mihajlo Bugarinovic, 2006
10
Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body
This is a study of the paintings of one of the most significant and prolific Victorian women artists, Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (1855-1919).
Elise Lawton Smith, Mrs. De Morgan (Evelyn), 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALLEGORICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term allegorical is used in the context of the following news items.
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Opera, sexual violence, and the art of telling terrible tales
At its best, opera can, indeed, be a powerful form of allegorical theatre. EPA/Gian Ehrenzeller (Image from Verdi's I due Foscari) ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
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The Skriker, Royal Exchange, review: 'never feels sufficiently …
Churchill's densely allegorical script provides the odd headache for directors: at one point Josie coughs up live frogs, deftly handled here with ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Couch Slouch: Rise of the sportswriting machines
The trend appears to be: Up with data-driven journalism, down with metaphor-driven seat-of-the-pants allegorical journalism. But the wave of ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
4
Netflix picks: Primer
This isn't an allegorical or metaphorical film, either. It's a very grounded story that just happens to be confusing, non-linear and ambitious. Yes ... «Colorado Springs Independent, Jul 15»
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Local authors receiving plenty of recognition for new works
Whether it was a tale of a whimsical "cat-fairy," a spooky Halloween mystery, a heart-warming story of a shared Christmas tree, or an allegorical ... «Huntington Herald Dispatch, Jul 15»
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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Ted 2' is raunchier than the average bear
Pretensions noted and quickly dismissed, the allegorical relevance of Ted's plight as a subjugated minority manages a heartfelt tone. «New Jersey Hills, Jul 15»
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HUMANS Scoop: William Hurt Interview
I think each one of those senses has, in an allegorical way, a mind of its own and comes to the party replete with its own genetic memory of ... «Seat42F, Jul 15»
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Wife of Pastor Who Worked for Billy Graham Resigns County Clerk …
The phrase “Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them” is used in an allegorical way, meaning to lead ... «Gilmer Mirror, Jul 15»
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An allegorical tale
The Field of the Cloth of Gold Magnus Mills Bloomsbury 2015, pp 207, Rs 399. Magnus Mills, the bus-driving English author, has written eight ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
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Inside Outside Show opens at Goldenstein
Allegorical art” is a term James Muir uses to describe his work, which is filled with symbols to help create a heightened social, political and ... «Sedona Red Rock News, Jul 15»

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